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Finally one of the co-detectors of man-made neutrinos, Dr. Frederick Reines of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology, came up with a successful method. Near Johannesburg, he went to work in a 10,492-ft.-deep chamber, which he knew would shield out nearly all radiation from the surface except the deep-penetrating neutrinos. He lined the sides of the chamber with 36 containers of common mineral oil. Then he waited for an expected reaction of several stages: 1) the neutrinos hit atomic nuclei in the rock surrounding the chamber; 2) this interaction generated particles called...
...Johannesburg's crusading editor, Laurence Gandar, 50, of the Rand Daily Mail, had been looking forward to a visit to Britain, on an invitation mailed him just the week before by an admiring British newspaper group. Then, suddenly, two of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's detectives changed his plans by calling at his home and relieving him of his passport - indefinitely. Joked Gandar: "For a moment, it struck me that somebody here might have been reading my mail. But I dismissed so unworthy a thought...
ROBERT HURWITZ Johannesburg, South Africa...
...more projects abuilding or on the drawing boards in his penthouse office in Manhattan's Statler Hilton. Having signed up last month to design another $50 million worth, he flew off last week on an eleven-day inspection of work in progress in Los Angeles, London, Nairobi and Johannesburg...
Upon hearing that a South African paper had published a sensational exposé of conditions in the country's prisons, the London Sunday Times sent a cable to its Johannesburg stringer asking for details. "I dare not risk prosecution and gaoling by cabling this story," answered Stringer Benjamin Pogrund. He had reason for his fears. He had written the story in the first place for the nation's most outspoken newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. And Prime Minister Verwoerd's police were already making trouble...